Question about the CC

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 11 Mar 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

scheherazade	11 Mar 2003
In the Celtic Cross spread, the second position card crosses the querent. How do you tell if the card is reversed? Is it reversed if the top of the card is at the left, or the right?

Inana	11 Mar 2003
I dont use CC usually. But the few times i've done, i never read the crossing card as reversed, no matter about how was laying.

rota	11 Mar 2003
Most of the books say you read the 'cover and cross' cards as both upright.

Dark Inquisitor	12 Mar 2003
Quote: Originally posted by scheherazade In the Celtic Cross spread, the second position card crosses the querent. How do you tell if the card is reversed? Is it reversed if the top of the card is at the left, or the right? As you are holding the deck in your hand, you take the card off the top & look at it. You note if it is reversed or not. Then you put it down. It doesn't matter how you put it down, I suppose. It matters how it was when it came off the deck. I put whatever end was up towards the left . Tarotphelia

scheherazade	12 Mar 2003
Oh. That I didn't know. :)

Thirteen	12 Mar 2003
I agree that it should always be read right-side-up. The cross card stands for the thing which is in your way, which (according to Konraad's "Classic Tarot Spreads") is an obstacle. Even if it's something positive when upright (rather than negative) it's meaning is as a negative. Thus, you might get The Star, meaning "hope"--but in this case, that's not a good thing. It's an obstacle.

Faerie Lin	12 Mar 2003
Tarotphelia does exactly what I do. Sometimes I put the crossing card right beside the 1st card as to see the whole 1st card while I look over the whole spread. If the crossing card comes up as reversed, I read it as reversed also.

Aerin	12 Mar 2003
I've used a CC variation where the crossing card can be read as 'crossing or supporting', depending on the cards. (Just looked it up: that's Joan Bunning's method.) She says 'The 1-2 pair symbolises the heart of a situation. It shows two factors coming together as a collision course or for mutual support. Sometimes Card 1 shows the central issue and card 2 what you should do about it.' When I've done this, I've found that if you go through all the permutations of upright/ reversed for each of the two cards you can get some interesting insights from all 4 permutations. Aerin

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